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I WAS in CRIMININAL MINDS ONE SHOT KILL
I have a feeling all imdb Official reps in here have a serious problem against me...major problem, must be the only actor in the history of imdb....they dont even bother helping its automatic pushing me away, not playing VICTIM but anyone would say its beyond unfair and unprofessional treatment towards me when im doing EXACTLY what ljandel and eboy told me to.
have seen
Michelle, Official Rep
in here approving contributions and accepting this, this is a NEW contributions,
criminal minds yet she keeps telling me to go to help desk, telling me to get lost, this is NOTHING to do with my previous threads.
contribution was automatically rejected:
criminal minds
i submitted 6 clean screengrabs from my imgur account.
IT WONT allow me to add the images on the edit page, have submitted this and nothing from imdb.
I CAN post all screengrabs in here, have submitted 3 times to imdb and nothing....complete ignorance and avoiding me....its beyond unfair and really just against me.....
you guys approve and help people in here, i know this because here is an example of you guys helping people, NOT ME, i feel seriously discriminated here:
Hi Megan,
Thank you providing the relevant evidence for this. I have now submitted this credit correction on your behalf and this change should display live on the site within 24 hours.
Michelle, Official Rep
Hi Sigal -
Thanks for posting the episode screen grab, the credit changes have now been approved and should be live on the site shortly. Cheers!
ALL THESE PEOPLE get help, me? im just always pushed away, so imdb is fair right, im submitting precisely what imdb asked me to and Michelle, Official Rep keeps telling me to get lost.....
do i make a valid point here? Official Reps here treat me like a piece of garbage, while other actors are helped? fairness?
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im sorry read my message i simply state very clearly, im submitting what i was asked
Official reps here help others and not me
im the only actor asked to go away
Ed Jones (XLIX) instead of helping me you decide to attack and threaten me
furthermore i gave examples of how other people are helped and not me, came across other threards, official reps help others
me? nothing...never
Ed Jones (XLIX) please treat me the same way you treat other people, feels like you too have a personal something against me and im simply trying to get this credit.
show evidence, show proof i was in it and instead you attack me threatening me, no other actor im sure has experienced this before.
See im not lying i was in it.
im submitting precisely what imdb asked me to and Michelle, Official Rep keeps telling me to get lost.....
Official Reps here treat me like a piece of garbageWhat would you call that?
Please be nice.
They are being nice to you.
telling me to get lost everytime.This could not be further from the truth.
Sir i feel like you couldnt care less about what i say and you are equally thinking im a joke and just throwing me awayI along with several Employees and Champions have been informative and tried to help you to understand the policies and rules criteria applicable to you submissions. You feel that these rules do not apply to you.
But these rules are applied evenly. You may be reading this end of the communication and extrapolating other peoples outcomes based on only 50% of the available data on any given topic. You cannot see what was in a contribution. So again you are comparing apples to oranges.
You are being treated the same as anyone here.
Please be nice to all, we only want to help.
just trying to add the credit and thats it. like any other actor, just showing proof.
When everyone here ignores me, not a single person helps me
i saw another thread and here people helping actors, guess what prove my point that imdb staff help here and they are against me, clearly:
Will, Official Rep
- 3028 Posts
- 3208 Reply Likes
Hi Sarah,
I've taken a look and it looks like one of our data editors may have been too over cautious with this credit, apologies. I've now accepted your submission which will be live on the title in due course.
IMDB STAFF ACCEPTING AND HELPING AN ACTOR! I MEAN HE ACCEPTED THE SUBMISSION lol.
i have presented everything imdb demands, so can any IMDB OFICIAL REP assist me the same way you help everyone else?
or basically im going to continue being despised, ignored and shut down by imdb while presenting all these screengrabs proving my participation? again here they are.....proof and imdb keeps ignoring me, my credit rejected OVER AND OVER again.
here it is again
can someone please help?
And IMDb didn't respond to any of my emails sent 2 days ago with all my screengrabs. What am I supposed to do?
The role name I submitted was Carlos which was what I was given at the time.
So please can SOMEONE PLEASE HELP??
I have presented the screengrabs, included uncredited on it. So please I did everything everything asked, can someone please help??
See no one responds, not a single message from nobody...
nothing...how is this possible?
That will get them to reply within the usual 24 hour during a weekday. Since you have been constantly replying all day long for two days you have delayed the staffs response to you.
Please be silent and wait. And don't ask for a time. That is not predictable.
Note: You have pushed this into the weekend which takes a little longer for a reply.
Again be patient, and please no replies.
Ed Jones (XLIX)
Hope this doesn't get pushed further down but have to ask, for my own mental conscious relief. you wrote no replies at the end they may see that, think its solved and close this chat......
how will they see i need help desperately or they notice this problem needs attention?
Ed Jones (XLIX) Attacking me again calling me ridiculous?
im sure you have fun mistreating people this way Mr Ed Jones, do me a solid if you may, since you have no intentions of being a nice person, understanding and helpful, but insult me and attacking me, nobody else does that BUT YOU.
please dont reply anymore.
just seeking help from people who actually want to help and are not here to judge, insult and attack others the way you have done before to me and i have taken screengrabs of this to show, in the future to show live on any possibly interviews how i was disrespected and insulted by you.
calling people ridiculous for no reason, you might as well not say anything.
So is there anyone at imdb or contributors on this forum who is generous enough to help me with this and solve this matter which i have evidence for?
anyone can help me
Jeorj Euler?
check my new thread i ask imdb directly why they havent responded back to me at all.
They ask for contributions, they ask for screengrabs and help them.
with me? never, not a single time
Jeorj Euler please help. Mr Ed Jones has helped me but i do not wish to converse with him any further, he was already wrong about one thing which you elegantly indicated and you corrected him.
he has some major ISSUES against me, IM DONE WITH YOU! STOP ARGUING just yelling at me like hes my dad and i do not accept him treating me in such a severe poorly manner. I never yelled at him, he is most certainly not yelling at me.
ljdoncel could you or Jeorj Euler finish rectifying this situation, both have been wonderful helping me before.
Stop responding to my posts, you are harrassing me now.
Seriously you are attacking me and just doing your best to make me look horrible, your goal today is to make me look bad, like a horrible person.and you are right about everything. you must be having the time of your life attacking me.
Nowhevere in that post did i mistreat anybody
I stated very clearly, please stop seriously, you are harrassing me with negative posts, please stop.
I simply stated Michelle has helped hundreds of people in the most awesome way.
https://help.imdb.com/contact i have CREATED another thread asking them why they havent replied. I never mistreated anyone.
i never attacked anyone, stop trying to make me look like someone im not.
Please stop answering my posts.
Please stop harrassing me and attacking me, leave me be.
you are being a bully towards me, so please stop bullying me.
check my new thread i ask imdb directly why they havent responded back to me at all.
They ask for contributions, they ask for screengrabs and help them.
with me? never, not a single time
Jeorj Euler please help. Mr Ed Jones has helped me but i do not wish to converse with him any further, he was already wrong about one thing which you elegantly indicated and you corrected him.
he has some major ISSUES against me, IM DONE WITH YOU! STOP ARGUING just yelling at me like hes my dad and i do not accept him treating me in such a severe poorly manner. I never yelled at him, he is most certainly not yelling at me.
ljdoncel could you or Jeorj Euler finish rectifying this situation, both have been wonderful helping me before.
On this Post
unfair and unprofessional
i feel seriously discriminated here: (Accusation of Discrimination)
Official Reps here treat me like a piece of garbage,On another Post (Which you Spammed)
Mannie,vomit might as well, i hate him so going to tell him to get lost and go to the help desk, she helps actors, approves contribution and actually makes an effort with them, with me its automatic get lost and go somewhere else when with these people she helps them responds, so im the only actor she treats this way.
shuts down chat and tells me to get lost basically.
I'm the only actor mistreated and treated like garbage.
clearly you don't seem to want nor have any intentions to do so (Reference to helping)
IMDb has COMPLETELY IGNORED ME
shut up and go away indirectly!
I would bet you 1000 in cash im being singled out.
Sir your actions are bordering on breaching the code of conduct.
Please understand that the word ridiculous when used in different contexts can have a completely different meaning. I did not call you ridiculous. Please do not imply that I did. Anyone with any rudimentary command of the English language knows that you were not called ridiculous.
Or to use it in context......... It is ridiculous to think that I called you ridiculous.
Ridiculous when I used it implied that it would be silly to think that the employees do what we say. The reason is so obvious. The employees are in charge here.
It would be ridiculous to think that they would do anything we say.
Ed Jones (XLIX) Thank you for the response,
I'm a man of peace, caring, empathy and support and being friendly with everyone, idols are ellen degeneres and dwayne johnson, so to quickly clarify all aspects for you and imdb;
I called the staff unfair knowing from other threads they accepted, helped and solved problems for actors in here and with me they told me to go to the contact form, rather than helping me here.......
WILL himself stated:
Hi Sarah,
I've taken a look and it looks like one of our data editors may have been too over cautious with this credit, apologies. I've now accepted your submission which will be live on the title in due course.
As you can see they respond, help, assist and solve problems. its a fact.
i stated i feel discriminated because i may the only actor here, who is rejected submissions in 5 seconds, all my contributions have been rejected in 10 seconds, submitted 5 emails with screengrabs and no response
so clearly imdb has something against me.obvious really.
i do feel like a piece of garbage compared to all other actors in here, without any doubt. everyone gets help but me,
so now you think you are entitled to attack and criticize how i feel?
wow mr Ed Jones, the lack of humanity, empathy and respect from you is mind blowing WOW!
breach of conduct stating im the only actor being treated this way Ed Jones (XLIX)? no i didnt insult anyone i simply mentioned so far NOT a single official rep has helped me, anybody would agree, but you never obviously. y
well i felt like you did call me ridiculous, have some empathy mr Ed, you clearly think you are right about everything.
I have 2 BFs from London SIR, MASTERS in filmmaking, conservatory in english and filmmaking, please now you're patronizing me and sounding like a professor talking down to me.
it is not ridiculous, people interpret things differently, so you ought to respect that rather than ATTACK people like youre doing here.Ed Jones thank you for your input
i'm not here to argue im here to solve a problem,
but to add my credit and that's it.
Appreciate your responses yet feel free to disregard this thread. and move on to other threads.
Dear contributors or STAFF,
these contributions that have been rejected in 5 seconds with all SCREENGRABS submitted as instructed:
19 April 2019
One Shot Kill (9 March 2011)
Series: Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior (2011-2011)
1 item
Declined (1)ACTORADDITION
De Castro, MannieCarlos(uncredited)
18 April 2019
One Shot Kill (9 March 2011)
Series: Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior (2011-2011)
1 item
Declined (1)ACTORADDITION
De Castro, MannieCarlos(uncredited)
Please help
Do Not Reply to this and lets see if the Screen shot and info I provide is acceptable for IMDb.
Please NO COMMENTS
PLEASE wait for IMDB to respond. Resist typing. This may not happen until Monday or Tuesday.
This is the actors image
This is the screengrab above
This is my poorer image screengrab from Amazon.
The image of the actor can be seen starting at 22:00 into the episode.
You can see also the screengrab identifies the episode.
You can clearly see that all three shots are one in the same person.
Could you please add this credit for the actor in question.
Thanks so much
On that very episode there are 4 actors with names, all uncredited and me
I was given the name Carlos
See for yourself
Check the episode go right away at the bottom of the cast
Could you please amend your submission and write Carlos?
Please. Or else there's no point having it
I promise I won't write anything else
But please do that
Check the list for yourself
Thank you for the help, truly
In order for the submission to be accepted as an uncredited you have to be listed by what you were doing in the episode. Not what the production staff gave you as a character name. You see that characters name is too hard to prove that it was ever spoken.
The correctly formatted role is now live on the site, thank you.
Elizabeth, Employee if you may this i a question for you only, directly, would be grateful if only you responded as an Official Employee, i have contacted: https://help.imdb.com/contact 6 times the past 2 weeks and no response, none whatsoever, did precisely what everyone told me to do.
How come imdb hasnt a single time responded back to me?
please respond thank you
Now lets discuss this.
You'll notice she said Correctly Formatted!
This is how easy it is to add a credit.
Do it Correctly the First Time!
Un-credited roles cannot have any Character name! NONE, ZERO!
It must be a description! Man on Bike. Man at Bar. Man in bar. Man on patio. Man in crowd. Pedestrian. Passenger on bus. In the case where someone else has the same credit. You need to submit, Man on bike #2. 2nd Man at Bar. Etc and so on. If there are already 5 Men at the Bar you are 6th Man at Bar.
Please follow the rules of submission.
Don't start your posts with "What the hell is going on here"?
Start treating Everyone here more NICELY!
Be Polite!
Say Please and Thanks in a nice way.
Stop the double spacing replies. It takes up to much space.
Stop Spamming your topics with repeating the same thing over and over.
look I can tell you are not a bad person and submissions can be difficult.
But if you will notice this process once I Did the submission for you took only 18 hours from a submission problem to solved.
Just follow the submission guidelines and you will stop having problems.
Ed Jones
PLEASE read this attentively,
This is unquestionable proof and everyone knows this,
thank you very much for helping, truly I'm yet,
before i address the other factors you mentioned:
im Sorry, NOT calling you a liar, i don't do that to anyone unless its true,
But I cannot believe you just said there are no uncredited roles with names on imdb?
are you serious? - are you 10000% sure about that Sir?
please lol allow me to prove you completely utterly wrong in seconds...
here is COMPLETE list, EXAMPLES Sir of numerous credits, with character names with UNCREDITED, list JUST for you:
from this episode: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1713134/reference
at the bottom you have:
Emilia Stiegler...Jennifer Connolly (uncredited)
from this episode: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1560284/reference
Patrick J. Adams...Ed (uncredited)
Rachel Roberts...Alda Hertzog (uncredited)
from this episode: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1568363/reference
Robert Beltran...Jerry Flute (uncredited)
Criminal Minds TV SHOW:
Diego Klattenhoff... Steve Hillman (uncredited)
Andre Johnson... Williams (uncredited)
Marlyn Bandiero... Susan (uncredited)
Nathan Anderson... Kevin Laughlin (uncredited)
Spencer Gray... Raymond Henrickson (uncredited)
Christopher and Zachary Randazzo... Joey Jr. Henrickson / ... (uncredited)
Gato Scatena... Jack (uncredited)
Yoni Tabac... Mickey (uncredited)
Ashley Palmer... Gaylene (uncredited)
90210 imdb TV SHOW CAST LIST:
Joelle ten Damme... Susan Elwood (uncredited)
Devon Elora... Jenny Wilson (uncredited)
Alyx Gaudio... Brock (uncredited)
Susanna Velasquez... Penelope (uncredited)
this lady herself has MANY uncredited with names:
So are you sure you are right?
as everyone can see there are MANY actors with names and uncredited! :)
So may i ask why are you emphasizing in such way stating:
Un-credited roles cannot have any Character name! NONE, ZERO!
You are right the way i started the post was wrongly and we learn from our mistakes, we are all humans and we progress from ou wrong doings.
MY deepest apologies
Double spacing? Mr Ed this is how i write,
please stop judging how im, i apologize for the way i started the chat, we all make mistakes and yes should have been far more polite and considerate for that my apologies, yet don't judge how i write please, we are all different, stop criticizing others.
The same way you expect and surely demand people respect and allow you to be you, please respect how people write and respond, double spacing i do it in my work place do facilitate reading, i have a DEGREE in psycology so i always admit my mistakes.
Off course im not a bad person,
i work with Teenagers at USC and students from all other world
raised around Portuguese, British and New Yorkers,
BUT so can you see there are HUNDREDS of uncredited roles with name, im 100% correct right? am i not?
So I was given the name Carlos for this production, how can i modify that?
please assist, thank you
Jeorj Euler, THANK YOU!!! GOD BLESS YOU MY FRIEND!
SEE IM NOT WRONG lol THANK YOU!!!!
Jeorj Euler or
ljdoncel, Champion
could you please assist me then i have a letter granted by the production company stating that i was registered under Carlos, i ONLY added this credit because all those people above had them, so could you please help me?
Please could both of you help, i also have a letter and ONLY submitted because of the name Carlos. Mr Ed Jones is all the way against me and has some serious issues towars me not sure why, i need great awesome diplomatic sweet people like both ya'll to assist.
All he does is attack, yell and critize me its awful beyond words, i would pay to have both of you assist me.
Jeorj Euler or ljdoncel,, could you please help me change the name to Carlos, i have a pdf letter recognizing that i was uncredited but the 2nd AD did name me Carlos that is the only reason why I did this.
can you please?
Jeorj ????????????????????????? What??????????????
This gentleman is hard enough to deal with without your giving him ideas that are misleading
My oh my. If I was like that USC would have fired me by now.
Mr Ed Jones despite your elegant and most generous help.
I had enough if you are most aggressive negative comments
You noticed everybody else talk to me in the most respectful delicate and supportive and kind away you are the complete opposite you love to attack insult and yell at me>
I will await for the other gentleman to address in the wonderful delightful way they always have.
Gentleman will await your response
Have a nice day mr Ed Jones
Please advise Gentlemen
I can surely happily sugar coat all these same replies with all kinds of happy talk.
Sir would you so kindly pretty please discontinue to make contributions that do not meet the IMDb's wonderfully crafted guidelines. It would be so nice to see you succeed at a perfect submission but I will kindly be here to re-guide you when you don't listen when others explain the clear and concise rules that you have failed to recognize due to an employees fault or a misinterpretation that must be our fault.
While other have recognized you were not correct. We all make mistakes and learn
I will then await for the other gentleman to assist me so you no longer have to deal with my troubles and proceed having a wonderful day. You indeed have an enough of me overall so you can dispense the trouble of dealing with me
To you
Gentleman await your response
Photo of Jeorj Euler
Jeorj Euler or Photo of ljdoncel
ljdoncel, Champion
Please so kindly read the rules please.
Thanks for ignoring my full and complete explanation.
So kind of you to ignore the truth.
I like your kind and thoughtful abuse so much.
Thank you for calling me a liar and unknowledgeable.
Appreciate it.
You are ever so kind.
I do not wish to continue this. Gaining nothing. Icertainly you have better things to do and a lot more people to help.
Thank you for the help. Rules. And all the indications. Please discard me.
Please do me the favor of ignoring me, if you may dispense paying attention to my comments and leave me be.
Please stop. Thank you
I repeat please stop contacting me and replying to my messages.
Thanks bye
Jeorj Euler or ljdoncel, Champion
Did you get my message?
Hope you are seeing this message
Jeorj Euler thanks for the reply, can you help me? i sent you 2 queries.
please let me know
await YOUR response please.
Jeorj Euler, thank you but
what do you mean?
in what forms may i prove that production granted me the name Carlos for it, i know there is no name tag or scene where he calls me by the name, but the ONLY motive why i submitted this credit and went to the extent of searching for the screengrabs its because they granted me the name Carlos.
You stated :) Yes, characters portrayed by uncredited performers can have names rather than generic descriptions
Could you please advise on how to take care of this?
letter from production?
contract by production?
await your response
but if i post a letter and contract from production, where it shows i was named Carlos, legal and contractual proof that they gave me that name, can that help?
because now that credit is horrible to have
would have paid to go back and remove it.
I only added because they gave me the credit...plus you did see that on that credit there are these people with names:
Alan Gray...Vietnam Veteran (uncredited)
Christopher Nissley...Opening Narrator (uncredited)
Gary Sievers...Vietnam Veteran (uncredited)
Emilia Stiegler...Jennifer Connolly (uncredited)
please advise, Emilia has a name and he doesnt show up anywhere....
so i have contracts showing they called me Carlos.....
Could you because it seems I'm not being granted the same right you know what I mean?
Because I had another uncredited role which was correct name generic.
This was is terrible and I only added
And obviously you can watch it yourself and double confirm
So if I'm right, what can I do?
On the episode web site edit page button?
Forgive my ignorance but somewhat confused here.
Submit through correcting name through edit page?
Submit through correcting name through edit page?Jeorj:
submit changes whereby the data in the "character" field contains descriptions instead of names, for the uncredited performances.
Submit through Removing (Which is correcting) the name through edit page by submitting changes whereby the data in the "character" field contains descriptions instead of names, for the uncredited performances.
Been telling you this is IMDb policy, but you ignore me because you don't want to hear a truthful answer. Jeorj has just told you the same thing
Cheers Mannie
You have this ENORMOUS Desire to jump in every time I say something and keep interfering on my messages.
It's automatic jump on my messages every time I show up.
If you have any decency or respect at all.
Please stop responding
Stop contacting.
Ignore me
Please stop I have asked you this before.
Please stop
Help other people and do your thing
Please IGNORE ME!
But then you called the guy misleading and he wasn't happy with your comment.
Called you rude remember.
Then he states generic names
So twice you were wrong
You are not perfect mr Ed please stop behaving as if you are
So if you are so perfect please explain to me how the other actors have names and uncredited?
You may saw either oh they deserved it
Slipped through IMDb editors
Or maybe IMDb just doesn't like you like I don't
Title it
Question: Character role formatting
Description: I have an uncredited role in Criminal Minds https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1713134/ My credit is Man on sidewalk. Is this correct? I have a call sheet that says I'm Carlos.
This way an Employee will see it. Do not make reference in your description to the other actors and their credits. That's their issue. After the Employee responds back to you, if you want to bring up those other actors, by all means do so.
But don't confuse the question you want answered with too much info in your description. It will just get you a possible bad answer. Keep your question simple.
Thank you very much truly
For finally granting me a helpful
Clear direct
Inspiring hopeful and encouraging message
Genuinely and seriously thanks for finally granting me something to work with
Being serious now
I appreciate the final encouraging and helpful response
Mr Ed I exist chat saying
Thanks for the at last a positive strong positive response
I wish you had been like this all along
Granting me options and seeking chances for me rather than shutting me down
Maybe by now I could have fixed this problem
So finally thanks for allowing me to get a response which helps me
Furthermore as you can see I opened a new threat about support contact
3 people said me too including you and no response
So remember I told you from the beginning I submitted 5 times and nothing, apparently you had what same problem and 2 other people right?
The only person that has an actual name is Jennifer Connolly
I can rewatch the episode. If her name was spoken in the script she is allowed.
If she was wearing a name tag on a nurses uniform or military uniform she gets that credit. Other credits in other titles go through this same vetting process. Some things slip by. If Jennifer Connolly was not credited in accordance with policy a submission can be made to turn Jennifer Connolly into what she was doing instead of a name. I'm not that kind of person to do that just to prove a point. You kept asking for IMDb to credit you as Carlos. They were never going to do that with the data you supplied them. Until you were willing to supply a Correctly formatted submission you were not going to get a credit.
And now I have learned a few more things
So again thank you immensely for the help and for the encouraging and hopeful response it does actually help me a lot.
Deeply gRateful.
With this kind of response it actually helps people is for you to understand.
Has you said all this from the beginning being elaborate direct clear and exemplary it would've helped me more than you can imagine.
Anybody agrees
What you just said is how other people have helped me here.
So thank you very much
But I can again give you another 20 examples of actors I know who were extras on tv shows. They don't even have uncredited and have multiple credits like that so they are allowed to have that?
My friend got a credit recently uncredited with a name and he was an extra...see?
2. Because honestly i actually have a contract proving im right, you see?
im not a liar Mr Ed, im a very honest person.
3. Should i start a new thread as a question or problem?
I have legal proof showing they named me carlos.
not sure why but i was given the name.
i just think its unfair for others to lie and get credits, im honest and i dont get this.
It has nothing to do with honesty.
It has nothing to do with your contract.
This only has to do with IMDb policy and rules on how credits in the uncredited category must be formatted for approval.
These rules are all that matter.
You can only be "Carlos" if another actor speaks your name or it says Carlos on your uniform if you are wearing one. That is the ONLY way IMDb allows it. That is why it (your submissions) kept getting rejected.
I knew what they required and submitted it.
A properly formatted submission.
You can go ahead with your post.
It's OK if you don't believe me.
You will be informed that the submission is correct as I submitted it.
Beforehand you said this:
Start a New Post
Title it
Question: Character role formatting
Description: I have an uncredited role in Criminal Minds https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1713134/ My credit is Man on sidewalk. Is this correct? I have a call sheet that says I'm Carlos.
This way an Employee will see it. Do not make reference in your description to the other actors and their credits. That's their issue. After the Employee responds back to you, if you want to bring up those other actors, by all means do so.
But don't confuse the question you want answered with too much info in your description. It will just get you a possible bad answer. Keep your question simple.
Feels like you are backing out from this helpful option?
made me feel hopeful but it sounds like you are no longer supporting that idea?
I havent disagreed i was just trying to find a way to change the name to Carlos or something less vague because it clearly shows its extra work that way and it very bad.
plus imdb has a policy extra work is not allowed
as you will notice all my other roles in general were speaking and i had speaking roles.
so you think there is a possibility imdb could hopefully help?
also imdb is destroying my credits now they removed my name character from this project; https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1498574/reference
its just uncredited, i tried to submit a character name but they wont allow me
I want you to get your definitive answer from the staff.
Rules are meant to be adhered to. Not bent or broken.
its not SOLVED on top meaning they are still following this chat.
I myself have an empty profile page at this time. I will most likely never get actual acting roles. I'm here in L.A. looking for voice work. So any kind of credit would be a Godsend.
But working here since last year on get sat and being a contributor for 7 Years on IMDb makes me appreciate ANY listing at all is a good listing/credit.
plus this is not SOLVED Ed, as you can see on top its not SOLVED
plus my other thread which you too'd as well hasnt been answered, what am i supposed to do?
They will look in. But this is so cluttered that starting a new post for an answer might be your best option. Just don't get your hopes up.
I have explained the rules that IMDb goes by.
I have repeated myself for the last time.
How can we ask to close this thread for good, can you request them to do so?
plus what about my other contact threat which you too'd? no answer at all....
You need more patience. You will get a reply on your other post, eventually.
Please, I'm done here.
Hopefully they respond thanks
I guess u also need an answer for the other one
These are both from today.
You see if a contributor like me or anyone notices credits that are not correct they will submit corrections. IMDb will correct the incorrectly formatted contribution or remove it completely.
Mr Ed jones thank you for the help and deeply appreciate the gesture
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May 1, 2012
For fifty-two years, the Mt. Lebanon-based, 75-voice South Hills Chorale has been entertaining thousands of people and hundreds of organizations in Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania.
Each concert season the chorale performs two major shows in December and May and 10 to 20 community shows for meetings, conventions, senior citizen, and social groups.
Notable recent performances include a Memorial Day concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. with soloist Irish tenor Anthony Kearns, two major works by Beethoven and Hanson with the Pittsburgh Civic Orchestra, Rutter's Magnificat with the Pittsburgh Youth Philharmonic Orchestra. The Chorale has also performed with other great groups such as the Mt. Lebanon High School Percussion Ensemble and the Keystone Oaks Steel Drum Band.
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"Hi. I have a gray pill, with 10 on one side and nothing on the other. I have no idea what it is, but I got it at Medco. It's for my husband and we only have 3 left. Call me right away."
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
"Hi. I have a gray pill, with 10 on one side and nothing on the other. I have no idea what it is, but I got it at Medco. It's for my husband and we only have 3 left. Call me right away."
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Namenda maybe?
- December 23, 2009 at 3:56 PM
- Grumpy, M.D. said...
I thought of that, too. It says FL on the opposite side.
- December 23, 2009 at 3:58 PM
That damn Medco mail order, and it will take them a week to get more; therefore, local pharmacy will have to jump through hoops to get an RX when docs are closed!!! I am glad I got out of the business.
- December 23, 2009 at 4:16 PM
- myoclonicjerk said...
Zyprexa. (grin)
- December 23, 2009 at 4:38 PM
- myoclonicjerk said...
Oops. I meant Zyprexa Zydis.
- December 23, 2009 at 4:41 PM
- Glen said...
rxlist.com has a tool to identify meds. If a round pill, looks like oral morphine or MS contin oral. Definitely need more than 3 for a good party.
- December 23, 2009 at 4:42 PM
- Kim said...
my uneducated guess would be fukitol...
- December 23, 2009 at 5:22 PM
Lol @ fukitol.
Seriously tho, they could have taken it to a pharmacy and had them try to ID it.
- December 23, 2009 at 5:48 PM
Namenda for sure. 10 mg, gray in color by Forest Labs (FL)
- December 23, 2009 at 6:03 PM
- Chris said...
I have a green pill with a lower case "m" on one side. Any ideas?
- December 23, 2009 at 7:57 PM
Why aren't the pills in a labeled container?
- December 23, 2009 at 8:09 PM
Maybe her hubby knows?
- December 23, 2009 at 8:12 PM
FYI there's a DR OMG on failblog.
- December 23, 2009 at 8:14 PM
Apparently the caller has overlooked the most important resource in this scenario: Medco!!! They got it from Medco so call THEM and ask them what it is. Also, I wonder where the labeled container is that came with the gray pill. Oh, and have they read the label???
- December 23, 2009 at 8:18 PM
They call the pharmacy all the time. I get a couple of them a week. I love it how someone called to refill one but got it somewhere else while telling me he never filled it elsewhere. after calling the insurance then calling pharmacy B, he picked it up, when I told him about it he said oh yeah they look different so I won't take it. WTF PEOPLE. It took the pharmacist to tell him its the same drug.
- December 23, 2009 at 9:06 PM
- The D-Bag Daily said...
Definitely Namenda! Yikes.
- December 23, 2009 at 9:29 PM
- Soon-to-be-PharmD said...
That's what 1-800-222-1222 is good for. <3 Poison control! I don't spend my time identifying pills... But I also live in an area where people want to make sure what their neighbor/friend/drug dealer sold them really is that lorcet/oxycotin/vicodin they were promised.
- December 23, 2009 at 10:24 PM
the fact that it's namenda says a lot in itself LOL!
- December 23, 2009 at 10:37 PM
- Andrea said...
Has to be Namenda 10mg.
You do realize they were being proactive as he would have ran out after taking his last dose at bedtime christmas eve? That's one less phone call christmas morning.
- December 23, 2009 at 10:50 PM
- Lipstick said...
Oh mercy Dr. Grumpy...I guess you should be flattered. They think you are all-knowing.
Micromedex is the easiest tab ID source for me to use at work. I think all pharmacies have access to some type of ID software though.
Of course, we all know you have every tablet memorized though. I'm going to start calling you too. ;)
- December 23, 2009 at 11:09 PM
Epocrates charges $100 for a years subscription to the online pill ID tool but the free PDA/smartphone software Epocrates Rx includes it. Probably worthwhile if you deal with folks that can't seem to keep a med list.
- December 23, 2009 at 11:35 PM
- Bad to the Bohn said...
If it's Namenda, maybe they forgot?
- December 24, 2009 at 12:08 AM
- Unknown said...
Cmon, you'll drive yourself crazy expecting anything less from people who need Namenda or Zyprexa. Like the litte old ladies who can't remember their Aricept! Priceless!
- December 24, 2009 at 2:40 AM
- Lovin Life! said...
People often try to describe their pills rather than tell me what they are called or what they are prescribed for. What really cracks me up is when the description consists of "it's a white pill".
- December 24, 2009 at 3:29 AM
- Jason said...
I really like your blog. I am a first-time visitor, but I observe every site I submit a comment to. I have a humor blog myself, which I hope to be a top place for people to come and laugh. Life is hard enough and you sometimes need to just sit back and laugh a little.
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Happy Holidays!
- December 24, 2009 at 4:32 AM
- Doris said...
Um...how about name and contact number?
- December 24, 2009 at 10:14 AM


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All access: Each generation claims the Stones
Not counting illnesses and a forced three-day exile for stink-bombing the lunchroom, the only time I missed class in high school was one fall day in 1981 when the Stones announced they'd play the now-demolished Capital Center in Washington.
That was the Tattoo You tour. The album contained two eventual classics– "Waiting On A Friend" and the guaranteed party-maker, "Start Me Up." It was also the tour when Mick wrapped himself in an American flag, rode a giant crane, and ushered in– following Kiss, of course– the mega-tour.
Even though a perfume company, Jovan, sponsored the tour, that most staid of cities, Richmond, was not immune from Stones fever.
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Mick in that crazy yellow spandex suit. Keith tripping and knocking his knee when he first took the stage. A baseball-size bloodstain on his jeans was the only sign of the carnage. But, then, Richards– always known to be an expert in self-medication– supposedly consumed a fifth of Jack Black during the show.
My sister was now a Stones expert, and it only got worse. Check out this vintage 1982 shot of her and her best friend as the Glimmer Twins. Rock and roll is not pretty.
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…Wimmer told KSL News it is the role of the state Legislature to protect Utah residents from illegal searches and seizures, and he said the TSA is violating people's rights every day in the airports.
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To build buzz for the newly redesigned bar in its business-class cabins, Virgin Atlantic chose to tap into its social media following—and the active Twitter presence of its founder Sir Richard Branson—for a pop-up business panel called "Conversations in a Cloud." The promotional event on Tuesday, October 2 brought Branson, along with panelists Kate Sekules and Howard Roberts, to a makeshift version of the drinking spot built 20 feet in the air outside the New York Stock Exchange. The British airline then invited the public to tweet questions (using Virgin Atlantic's U.S. handle, @VAAintheUSA, and the hashtag #CloudConvos) to win the opportunity to pose the query to the billionaire.
"It was a different approach to a business campaign. We went along with the concept that you never know who you're going to meet at a bar—especially our on-board bar—you never know what ideas can come or what brainstorming sessions could come out of it. We also took into account that so many businesses have started from a casual conversation, so we wanted to bring that to life," said Laura Kilroy, Virgin Atlantic's event specialist.
By positioning the structure in Manhattan's financial hub and using the microblogging platform to ask questions like "How will business change the world for the better?" the brand hoped to engage the new bar's key audience—business travelers. "People immediately associate the stock exchange with business men and women and we really wanted to reach out to those potential and current business passengers," said Kilroy. "Our target business members are folks who are engaging on social media and are innovative and creative creatures."
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At least the german audience of this blog will probably recognize the rather blunt punch line. Mediamarkt, for those who don't know, is Europe's biggest retail chain for Electronics with something like 650 stores. For different reasons, most of them not really relevant here, they did not have a Webshop up until last week. Can you believe that?
Well, now they do. Last week they launched the site and did, as they often do, a pretty bold statement. No other than Amazon is the opponent they would like to attack. So I was curious, how they perform from a Web Performance perspective… To make a long story: Pretty badly.
The dry numbers, pulled from WebPageTest:
- Time to Render 0.7 seconds
- Visually Complete 2.3 seconds
- Time to render 3.4 seconds
- Visually Complete 18.2 seconds
Yep, you are reading that right: Amazon is already visually complete, before Mediamarkt starts to draw a single pixel.
Both tests done from WPT's Paris node with 1.5 MBit/s bandwidth and IE8. Reason I picked Paris and not Frankfurt is that Paris apparently has a higher headroom regarding CPU Power. With Frankfurt I often encounter measurements, that are clearly having CPU Power as influencing bottleneck. Paris comes at a latency price of +10ms, which normally doesn't worsen the results significantly.
What is the reason, I hear you asking… Well actually it is two things Mediamarkt is paying for. First and foremost they are loading WAY too many CSS and JS Files (green and orange bars) at the beginning of the page. There are ~15 CSS and ~15 JS files placed in the HEAD section of the Page.
As you can see in the picture above, it takes almost 3.5 seconds, before all necessary CSS and JS files are recieved. To make things worse, the Browser is already pulling images, before all CSSes and JSes are requested. The "final" necessary object is actually Number 44 on the wire…
They could reduce the Time to Render by quite a lot, if they would carefully concatenate them or inline part of them.
But as you recall, it is not only the Time to Render, that is pretty bad. Visually complete doesn't look much better, either. The simple root cause, and reason for the Headline, is weight. Or better Overweight. The page clocks in at 2.5 MByte! A simple math will tell you, that @1.5MBit/s it won't get much faster than 15 seconds to download the page.
And, as you can see, it is the images. All of them are PNGs, and apparently at True Color depth. 4 Images of them come in at roughly 360KB each. So just these 4 images are already half of the weight of the page. I converted them to JPG with Quality setting 100, and then used JPEGMini to crunch them. As a result, each of them was crunched to 60KB instead of 360KB. Reduced to 1/6th of its former size. For the quality degradation, look for yourself:
Additionally, another flaw they did, they implemented a rotating banner in a rather badly way. These 4 HUGE Images are loaded IN PARALLEL. Which means, even though you only see ONE of them at the beginning, all of them have to be pushed down the pipe simultanously. So instead of loading the visible one fast and immediately, and lazy load the other ones, as soon as the page completes rendering, they are loading them all at once. Which means that the VISIBLE one loads roughly ~4 times slower, than it could. Look at the Video below, how slowly that main banner progesses:
But it doesn't end here… BELOW THE FOLD, they have another Banner rotation with 5 images, each at 30KB resulting in additional 150 KB Page weight. And another 100KB image, which actually isn't visible AT ALL.
So, to sum it up, I assume you will be able to bring the page weight below 1 MByte, and if you properly lazy load, have a visual complete at around 800KB.
Three other minor things stood out, but aren't as problematic, as the issues mentioned above:
- Caching is rather on the short side. The good thing is, that almost every object DOES have a Cache-Control-Header. The bad news is, that the Time-to-Live is rather short with 1 hour, resp. 1 day.
- Cookies. Normally I would count that as Micro-Optimization. Their Cookies though are actually THAT big (don't fit in a single frame) and are sent even with static objects, that they should have a look at that.
- They are serving 1 CSS and 1 Image from a different Domain, owned by them. No cookies there and no functionality. IMHO, they could put these two on the main domain, and save a DNS Lookup as well as 2 TCP Handshakes (This specific Domain sends a Connection: Close Header).
To conclude, even though Mediamarkt achieves a decent 81 Pagespeed Score we shouldn't come to the conclusion, that the user experience is mirrored by that. An invalid causation, as Catchpoint excellently has written about.
From a performance point of view (and thereof user experience point of view), if they keep it, like it currently is, it will be quite a an uphill battle for Mediamarkt to fight.


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ERS-2 goes gyro-less
ESA engineers have saved the life of a crucial environmental spacecraft, enabling the decade-long European Remote Sensing programme to continue on track. The orbital rescue took place on terra firma, as teams from ESA and Astrium came up with new navigation techniques so the ERS-2 satellite could outlast failed gyroscopes.
The team wrote software to make the new methods work, proceeding as cautiously as surgeons operating on a frail human patient. As with any terrestrial PC, an input of indigestible code risked a crash. Control of the van-sized spacecraft - in polar orbit 780 km up - could have been lost for good.
"It was risky," said Miguel Canela of the ERS-2 gyro-less project. "We had to rearrange onboard memory to free space for the new software, written in an antiquated language from 15 years ago, when ERS-2 was first designed."
The software was exhaustively tested on simulators before being uplinked to the satellite. Even then, they only dared run it in pieces, over the course of a week.
The first European Remote Sensing spacraft was ERS-1, launched in 1991 but currently inactive. Four years later its near-twin ERS-2 was flown. It has a suite of environmental sensors onboard including cloud-piercing radar to observe the Earth in unprecedented detail.
But to maximise data yield ERS-2 needs to be kept steady across three axes (roll, pitch and yaw). Twin gyroscopes are dedicated to each axis. If they detect a positioning error - to less than a fraction of one degree - onboard reaction wheels are set rotating to generate compensating momentum. Alternatively electro-magnetic coils called magneto-torquers are charged up to interact with the Earth's magnetic field and move the satellite that way.
But you can't make corrections if you don't know where you are. By January 2000, ERS-2 was down from six gyroscopes to limping along with one. Complete failure would make the otherwise functional spacecraft useless.
Fast-spinning gyroscopes keep their initial orientation, like a child's top. This property means they are used as navigational tools inside guided missiles and submarines as well as spacecraft. Except gyroscopes don't spin forever.
"Most Earth or space observation satellites have their operational lifetime determined by their onboard gyroscopes," said Miguel. "These frictionless wheels perform billions of turns. But eventually they stop or are no longer reliable."
With this in mind, Miguel and the ESA team worked out a method of operating the ERS-2 equipment (sensors and actuators) in a new way, to permit gyroscope-free ERS-2 positioning. When the last gyroscope failed on 13 January this year, they were ready. Part of their design involved a device called the Digital Earth Sensor (DES), set to our planet's horizon for extremely basic positioning checks.
"After five years of use we knew we could get a lot more precise data out of the DES than just the horizon line," Miguel explained. "We cleaned up the DES signal to filter out noise, then used it to estimate pitch and roll errors."
That still left the final yaw (or downward) pointing error, which could no longer be measured by the gyro-less spacecraft. The team realised they could check yaw drift themselves, by analysing Doppler frequency shifts in the ERS-2 radar instrument signals. Turning raw signal into useful data takes up to three hours however, too long to keep the spacecraft correctly orientated in real time.
So instead they monitored ERS-2 over a 105-day 'shakedown cruise', totalling three 35-day repeat tracks over the Earth's surface. Recurring patterns of spacecraft 'depointing', caused mainly by terrestrial magnetic field variations as well as pressure from the solar wind, were rendered into a detailed model uplinked to the satellite. This enables depointing to be anticipated and compensated for.
"We're about to finish fine-tuning the model," Miguel said. "We operate the reaction wheels more than before, but we keep navigation errors within the limits required by all ERS-2 instruments."
The gyro-less technique should extend the lifespan of numerous other ESA missions, and preserves ERS-2 to operate with its scheduled successor Envisat and to provide wind measurement until Metop-1 takes over in 2003.


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Hey, check out this new fun picture of Kym!! As you can see, she lit up the Australia Open on Friday. Some details below in a take from 10balls.com. (Novak Djokovic a DWTS contestant in the making maybe? How cool would that be? I'd love to see it. 😀 )
So, when Kym Johnson of 'Dancing With The Stars' fame – she was David Hasselhoff's partner last season – happened to mention that she had tickets for Friday, she was asked if she wouldn't mind bringing one of spangly frocks and maybe teaching a player a few moves. Out on Court 16. It was a match made in heaven: Kym and Novak (Novak Djokovic) strutting their stuff in the summer sunshine.
Kym put Djoko through his paces, teaching him the cha-cha-cha, while he showed off his muscles with a few lifts. Encouraged to take his shirt off by one of the photographers (and, really, it doesn't take much to get Novak to get his kit off), he was happily swirling Kym around as if he had been practising this dancing lark for years. According to Kym, Novak is a fast learner. According to the look on Novak's face, Kym could ask him to dance any time she liked. He even gave her a tennis lesson and Kym even managed to hit a ball or two. In a quiet week, Kym and Novak (hang on, wasn't she a film star?) brightened up the Open nicely.
Lacey and Cheryl were in Florida this past week to help Christen the new "Disney Dream" cruise ship. Here they are visiting Pink, the ship's "chic, champagne-inspired" lounge. I have to say I am liking Lacey's new hair color a lot.
Also, featured below is a new professional shot of Lacey. She recently had some cool photos taken by "Cean One Photography". You can see more of this shoot at her Twitter account.
Speaking of cool photo shoots, Peta has done an amazing spread for Brendan Vale Courture. Beautiful and I have a feeling John will love her hair. 🙂
Mark has been posting fan pictures as he tours for his new album "HurtLoveBox". Here's one taken of him and Chelsie at Mohegan Sun Pocono Downs on Jan. 19th (Courtesy of fan Cindy Krumpet). You can see more pics at his Facebook page.
And here they are being interviewed and dancing….
Edyta tweeted a picture of Alec, Anna, and Jonathon at a coffee shop between their two "Ballroom With A Twist" performances yesterday.
Here is Anna and Edyta before the second show.
Louis also tweeted a "cast" picture right after the show.
Thanks Louis and Edyta. As reported earlier, Ballroom With A Twist began it's run in Los Angeles, CA. Friday night. Details and ticket information at the link.
Derek was interviewed at MSA Celebration this week. He was asked about who he'd like to see on the show. They throw out some names but he's not sure who they are. lol
Lastly, if you'd like to read about Brooke's take on her and Derek's "Mirror Ball Trophey" story, go HERE to read an excerpt out of her new book "The Naked Mom". Thanks to twitter friend @georgiagirlatl and @dwtsgossip for this tip.


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It's my party and I'll write if I want to…
So apparently these days it's inappropriate to celebrate achievements…
Don't celebrate Battlemaster because a lot of people don't PvP, which is unfair on them and might discourage them from entering the Battlegrounds. Hell, even those that do love Battlegrounds might get discouraged when you provide them with a role model and encouragement.
Don't celebrate raiding achievements, because some people don't raid, and many of those that do raid, can't dance. We don't want them being discouraged from participating in something they aren't trying to achieve.
No fishing, because we all know everyone hates fishing. Let's just stop there.
No leveling, because some people don't want to level, they want to roleplay. Celebrating leveling achievements puts undue pressure on people that never intended to reach max level. No, they wanted to roleplay and now I have spoilt it by forcing them to reach for max level, raid, BG and whatever else it is that people do when they reach max level. (What do people do when they reach max level?)
No naked Gnomes because:
- No one will ever be as well proportioned (with extra serves in some places), nor smexy, nor downright charming as Gnomeaggedon
- You have to be a Mage to be able to service all your adoring fans
I mean that excludes an entire faction.. not to mention the inferior Alliance races… nope..if you aren't rolling a Gnome Mage, go play SWTOR.
No writing awareness posts especially if they are linked to charities. That would like raise awareness, get people thinking, save lives, raise money, save lives… and for god sake, DON'T GET LINKED BY WOWINSIDER, because that would raise awareness with thousands of people, and god knows we want all those people with mental illness, and their loved ones to go die in a fire!
And for crying out loud… NO LINKING TO FRIENDS who share a common spirit for your blog topics. We all know that is just gratuitous linking just so you can watch your hit counter rise by one or two a day, for a couple of days.
Don't do it… you might make life long friends around the world.
Friends that leave you heartbroken for days when they give up blogging.
Friends that inspire you to write one more post, write one better post, hell they might inspire you to write ONE POST.
I get spam!
I get lots of spam… 127,317 spam at this moment in time.
That's without including phrases like: Gnome Sex, jelly wrestling lawn mowers, Viagra makes my Gnome sing, teenage troll baiters, Big Sexy Bear Butts, I keep tropical fish in my underpants, Azeroth sex tours.
Now, if I was to include those kind of phrases in my posts, then my stats would truly go through the roof… Ohh look at that…
Big numbers mean jack shit!
I mean, it isn't like I write posts that people want to read… not like I would take the time to research and write a series of posts that people wanted to read, not like they still want to read them even though they are 3 years out of date.
If I did, then I guess that would be my fault for not writing nice posts, great pieces of literary work.
Hell, I got 51% as my final high school english result.
You know what I did.. I went out and celebrated like I had no intention of living until 18. I got 51%… even my teacher was dancing for joy… because let's face it, we thought I'd be lucky to get out of high school in 3 final years, let alone get into university after one attempt.
Who the hell would have thought I would have gone on to write over 800 blog posts.
Who would have thought I would write something, anything, that some one, let alone more than one, would enjoy reading.
I started writing because I was better than Larisa
Yeah.. me, better than a blogger writing in a second language.
Apparently by day 3, when I started post number 3 with this…
Yep, it's only day 3 and it looks like I am scratching for things to write about.
I had already drawn Larisa's attention.
That was the beginning of a beautiful long lasting friendship – but I didn't know it then.
Of course she is a significantly better writer than me.
She was receiving significantly more subscriptions and page views that me (with the exception of the odd spike maybe).
You think I was envious?
Hell yeah!
But I never let that stand in the way of our friendship.
I never let that get me down, on the contrary, it encouraged me to write and write and write.
I engaged in my beloved WoW blogging community. I sang with them, I sparred with them, I wrote with them, I invaded their personal blog spaces, I promoted their blogs, especially the new ones… Larisa and I were constantly on the lookout for new bloggers to bring them to the communities attention.
Yes occasionally I heard about the gold bloggers and their 35 million subscriptions and their 2 million view per day… did I give a shit?
Why the hell would I?
I was, and am, here to write for myself 1st, and my community 2nd.
7,104 comments… close to 1/2 of those are mine.
I strive to respond to every comment that gets written on my blog, because those people who read my bullshit are very important to me.
I don't always succeed, I certainly don't keep up with other bloggers these days… but then that is why it is important to be engaged with the community. If I see a pingback to someone I do read, if I see a link(love) from someone I read, I will follow that link. I hunger for good writing, so if someone I love and respect as a writer identifies someone they love and respect, I am going to have a look.
The lover of my lover is my friend!
I am only back writing because two people continued to engage with me long after I had subconsciously given up writing. One of those is my most loyal of readers, Prelimar, the other is Big Bear Butt. Both contacted me to ensure I was OK.
They are not the acts of people that read a page hit hunter. They are the acts of people that know I care about what gets written and they would be satisfied with the smell of an oily rag.
What the hell did I write?
I wrote a bunch of Warlock (Pfft) twinking guides. They weren't to seek page hits, they were to consolidate my planning and execution of my goal. I considered that if it took me months to collate the information, then some one might appreciate it all in one place.
I wrote a stupid April Fools post.. even the title is stupid… 9,960 reads worth of stupid… should I feel bad?
I wrote a stupid post about stupid Drop Bears and Gnomes… my fault that there are people that want to know what the worlds most dangerous creature is (and I stand by the fact that it's a Gnome Mage)?
OMG, I have 4,567 reads of my blog roll… How freaking shameless of me to half arsedly maintain a list of the bloggers of the community that would have benefited by getting read when they possibly wouldn't have for any other reason!
Ohh yeah.. and 2,566 people that cared that I cared about Warlock souls… even though all they wanted to do was kill Mages.
But seriously, the worst crime committed of all… I caught the eye of WoW Insider, on several occasions, the last of which was my completely shameless, completely self serving, action of suggesting WoWInsider might like to follow up on the (last count – and I know there are more that are still joining in) 263 Blogs that were tagged.
The other mistake I made
The other mistake I made was making friends and engaging in the community.
No I don't know why Rohan has linked to me since basically day one. I don't know why I continue to get hits from Blessing of Kings, but I do.
I know why I get referrals from the others though, because I engage in the community.
Is it a mark of my success as a blogger
Does it invalidate any other bloggers that aren't getting the referrals?
But don't come bitching to me about how your 99% university english is getting ignored if you don't engage in the community… what do you want us to do.. write your posts for you and the *shock horror* do the forbidden link to you?
Do referrals really matter?
Yes and No.
Over 4 years, BBB has sent 2,582 readers to me.. of which probably 2,000 are himself so he can hit *refresh* *refresh* *refresh*.
2,582 readers… if you ever wanted evidence that it doesn't matter how big a blogger it is that refers to you, then there it is. 2,582 pages views… after that, I stood or fell on my own.
I'm still standing baby!
What matters, if you really want your posts to be read (and let's get honest now… the only reason you would cry about someone else's page hits, is because that is what you crave, not writing quality posts, not looking after your 15 readers.. you want the page hits) is two things.
- Write good shit (or at least shit that people want to consume)
- Get noticed.. and yes, that may involve making friends with people… god forbid you make friends with people and get page views!
Pull your finger out!
Seriously.. what the hell is your problem?
OMG some people will be intimidated and stop writing because they see you have people that WANT to read you
You think I started the Sixth Meme so I could get Page hits?
You think I asked WoW Insider to write an article about all the bloggers in the community participating the meme SO I COULD GET PAGE HITS?
You think I offered up the opportunity to write hate posts to me, about me, SO I COULD GET PAGE HITS?
Seriously… go have a good look at yourself in the mirror and decide if you are the solution, or the problem.
Good chance that by the time you read this post I will have reached 500,000 page views
Yes, 127,317+ of them are spammers, trying to get a link on a post that people are reading.
Congratulations Big Bear Butt
Congratulations Big Bear Butt on 2,000,000+ page views, I can only dream that one day (with the 500k spam included) I have had the opportunity to expose my Gnome parts and writing to that many people.
You are a long standing hero of the WoW blogging community, and no one should take your achievement away from you.
If I had a party and some wowser caused me to call it off, I would be pissed… in fact that is part of the reason for this post… it is my party, it is our party, and I will write what and if I want to!
Congratulations Cynwise
Congratulations Cynwise on your 10^6 page views, you are a truly awesome blogger who has stretched yourself across multiple blogs and really achieved amazing writing and friendships within the WoW Blogosphere. You deserve many more, and I promise I will hit refresh on your pages more often, cause I can't stand the wait between posts, nor the excellent comments your garner from the community.
Congratu-Fucking-lations to me
If Stephen Fry likes to insert a word inside a word, then so do I.
Now… START WRITING THE HATE POSTS!
Folks, let's be clear about one thing…
If there is a need for hate to flow, let it flow to ME.
Oestrus started an intelligent discussion on a worthwhile topic, which I have responded to in the manner to which I have become accustomed, but there is not need for others to stoop to my level.
Let's keep it civil… well more level than a 40 something year old Gnome can.
Discussion is good… enjoy!
Gnomer and Out!
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Conventional Roles Mark Many Cohabiting Couples Among Working Class
A new study discovers working-class couples who buck the tradition of marriage are far more traditional in their views on gender roles and household responsibilities than might be expected.
Dr. Amanda J. Miller, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Indianapolis, discovered that the conventional notion of a male breadwinner and female homemaker still guides at least some behaviors.
This perspective holds even for couples in which the woman is the primary financial provider or at least one partner wishes to have a nonconventional arrangement.
"Many people have thought of these cohabitors as very egalitarian," Miller said. "In fact, in many ways, these working-class cohabitors are playing house. They're acting out the roles traditionally played by married people."
Miller and co-author Sharon Sassler of Cornell University interviewed 30 working-class cohabiting couples for their paper, published in the December issue of Qualitative Sociology.
In addressing the division of paid and domestic labor, the couples fell into three categories: Conventional, in which each partner accepts the traditional gender role; Contesting, in which one partner (generally the female) tries to forge a more balanced arrangement, though often unsuccessfully; and Counter-Conventional, in which the female partner often provides financially and still must perform most of the household labor.
Even those men who were being supported by their partners generally lived under the assumption that the man is the head of the household and the woman is largely responsible for domestic work, Miller said.
"A number of these working class men wanted the respect of being the breadwinner, but were not necessarily taking on that role," she said.
"While they were content to let their girlfriends pay at least half of the rent, they admitted that they had no plans to take on half of the housework, even if their partners were very unhappy about doing more than their fair share."
Miller believe the findings suggest that working-class men — who were far more likely than women to lose their jobs in the latest recession — may be clinging tightly to their privileges at home as they lose ground in the workplace.
Not surprisingly, she and her colleagues have found in their other research that many cohabiting women view marriage as a path not to a better relationship, but to an even greater workload both in and out of the home.
"They're afraid that they're going to be doing even more than they do now," Miller said, "which may help explain the retreat from marriage among those with less than a college education."
Source: University of Indianapolis
Nauert PhD, R. (2018). Conventional Roles Mark Many Cohabiting Couples Among Working Class. Psych Central. Retrieved on October 1, 2020, from https://psychcentral.com/news/2013/01/09/conventional-roles-mark-many-cohabiting-couples-among-working-class/50188.html
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Eye Candy at Annual CRAFT Show opening reception
I'm not an advocate of eating glass. But if I were, I might suggest tasting the work of Albuquerque fine glass artist Lydia Ann Piper. Thirty of Piper's pieces are being featured Nov. 1 through 30 as part of Sumner & Dene Gallery's Annual Craft Show Exhibition. Many of her works are glistening plates in varying shapes and sizes—square, round, rectangular—but what makes them border on the delicious is their punchy, lively color, reminiscent of the sweet, old-fashioned hard candy your grandma put out at Christmas. Vibrant color radiates in patterns that almost seem to play tricks on the eyes of the viewer, thanks to Piper's complex, kiln-formed glasswork techniques. The result? Each piece is infused with its own ripe flavor and a modern, clean aesthetic. Not bad for a glass artist who claims she once possessed a paralyzing fear of sharp objects. In addition to Piper's collection, the craft show includes ceramic vessels from Mike Tarter, whimsical mixed-media sculptures by Sarena Mann and much more. Meet the artisans during a special reception on this evening at 5pm and whet your artistic appetite—you just might spot a cool new candy (or candy-like) dish. Sumner & Dene • Fri Nov 1 • 5-9pm • FREE • View on Alibi calendar


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Mitochondrial Transfer Concerns
Rather than focusing on creating a "perfect baby" based on aesthetics, CNN reported recently that our nation's health officials are in the process of deciding whether to approve trials of a pioneer method of in vitro fertilization utilizing DNA from three people to try to prevent muscular dystrophy and other illnesses as well as respiratory problems.
What is genetic engineering?
Dr. Jessica Shepherd, OB/GYN at University of Illinois College of Medicine and owner of HerViewpoint, breaks it down for us, describing it as "the process in which genes are changed in a way that alters the original cell makeup. This technique can move genes and create new organisms by altering the DNA. The ability to provide an alternative to human life has created an increasing power to scientists and possibly parents to give an option to modify unborn children. Ideas behind this technology are to spare children from genetic diseases, design children's traits and replace defective genes with functional ones."
Dr. Shepherd notes that when the process is complete, the human DNA is inserted with the replacement gene with the belief that the bad genes can no longer pose a threat to the individual.
Dr. Marina Gafanovich, who owns her own practice in New York, adds that one of the greatest benefits of designer babies is that with their help, "You can medically assist one of your children who has any genetic issue. You can give birth to another designer child and can immediately meet the need of your child suffering from genetic disorder. For instance, if your first child — who is suffering from any disorder — misses a bone or a kidney that will create problems for him to live, you can get the required part from another designer baby and can keep him alive as well."
What will the future generation look like?
Dr. Shepherd explains that with the replacement of defective genes through genetic engineering concerns arise regarding the potential for all generations in the future eventually having the same genetic makeup. She adds, "With a population that has the same genetic makeup, there is the chance of immunity to known diseases, however not to unknown diseases and viruses." Currently there is technology to do this at the level of the sperm and eggs — however, they are not approved by the government.
Mitochondrial transfer
Dr. Shepherd says mitochondrial transfer takes a small amount of the DNA in the mitochondria, considered the cell's energy factory, and passes it from mother to child. "When there are mitochondrial defects they can cause devastating problems," she shares. "Many of those who support genetic engineering argue that without this technology it prevents women with mitochondrial disorders from having children of their own."
However, the controversy surrounding genetic engineering is geared at what Shepherd refers to as a "misuse of technology." Shepherd says this can create "potentially perfect human specimens with no regard for diversity of the human genetic pool."
"This is important for survival of the human species and prevents unknown catastrophes," notes Dr. Shepherd. "There are also the ethical and moral concerns of this process and how it will affect future generations."
There are also some severe potential disadvantages of genetic engineering and mitochondrial transfers — including the potential for creating a genetic underclass, risks of mutations or the creation of superviruses when transferred genetic material mixes with human cells.
While our U.S. health officials may have the best intentions of saving babies' lives with this procedure, Dr. Shepherd suggests we proceed with caution. She says that we need to "have more discussion on the absolute necessity as well as creating some type of legislation to prevent abuse of this technology."
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Tête-à-Tête with Tête Jumeau Bébé
January 30, 2014
In case your French is a little rusty (ok, we had to look it up too!), tête is the French word for head. This beautiful porcelain doll's head was made by French dollmaker Pierre Francoise Jumeau in the 1880s. Dolls (or bébés) made by the Jumeau firm were known for their soft, expressive facial features and were most often made of bisque porcelain.
This particular bébé is not only pretty and well-dressed, but she's also an automaton! The body of the doll contains clockwork mechanisms that are wound with a key to make her move. Automata tend to have somewhat slow and jerky movements that may seem a bit creepy or strange to us today, but dolls like this one were a popular form of entertainment in the 18th to early 20th centuries. It's a good thing she's so lovely to look at!


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Patinya Autumn/Winter 2013 Collection "Stronger Inner Me"
Definitely one of my favourite runway from Bangkok Elle Fashion Week.
The collection is dominated by black and white with a bit of red and gray metallic.
Patinya's Stronger Inner Me collection focuses on expressing both strong (masculine) and soft (feminine) side of a women through their simple cutting. They're also adding a sexy yet exciting twist to their classic designs like a front, side, and back cut out, not to mention, thigh high slit, see through and sheer lace details which we have seen throughout the runway. Once again Patinya successfully kept their design clean and classic with a touch of effortless yet elegant.
The stunning red dress from Patinya A/W 2013
Came to support my beloved sister P'Guitar the designer of "Patinya"
Have a good day! Stay tune for my next outfit post!